Criminal Records Podcast
Demetria Spinrad and Isaac Meyer
Criminal Records Podcast is a history show exploring the weird history of crime and punishment, from the earliest recorded murder case to the origins of laws that are in effect tod...
Episode list
143
September 26, 2024
1 hr 10 min
Mickey Cohen
Mickey Cohen had friends in high places, from celebrities to televangelists to the LAPD. So what happened when one of the nation's most notorious mobsters tried to file his taxes a...
moreSeptember 5, 2024
1 hr 4 min
Mickey Cohen, part 1
It's an illegal gambling, Nazi-punching, tax-paying good time with Mickey Cohen, a gangster who rose through the ranks during one of America's most infamous eras of organized crime...
moreAugust 15, 2024
1 hr 15 min
Sovereign Citizens, part 2
As the internet creates new unmoderated spaces for ideas to spread, the sovereign citizen movement moves on to new audiences and finds a lot of angry divorced dads who don't want t...
moreAugust 1, 2024
1 hr 11 min
Sovereign Citizens, part 1
Don't feel like paying your taxes? Want to start your own posse? Still mad about the gold standard? Looking for an excuse to blame all your problems on the Jews? Have we got a lega...
moreJuly 18, 2024
1 hr 8 min
The Principality of Hutt River
When you're unhappy about the price of wheat, there's only one solution: Send a telegraph to the Australian government declaring war. Sources, show notes, and some pictures from a ...
moreJuly 11, 2024
1 hr 5 min
The James Flint Incident
When an Englishman with the rare ability to speak Mandarin Chinese got into a dispute with a corrupt local official in Zhejiang, he took his complaints all the way to the top, kick...
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